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Fulacht fia

Poulgorm, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Poulgorm, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Poulgorm
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.06366, -9.13313
SMR number
CL005-199002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In elevated pasture, adjacent to the Poulgorm-Garracloon townland boundary and part of a multiperiod field system (CL005-227004-). A fulacht fia (c. 15.2m N-S; c. 8m E-W) comprising a pair of grass-covered mounds of burnt stone separated by a linear depression (Wth 1.2m), noted on fieldwork in 1998. The N mound (7m N-S; 8m E-W; H 1.1-1.3m) is slightly taller than the S mound (7m N-S; 8m E-W; H 0.7-1.1m), and there is a small hollow (Wth 3.2m; D 0.5m) in the S mound. Some unburnt stone is visible in both mounds. A second burnt mound (CL005-199001-) lies c. 35m to the SW. 

 

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

 

Date of upload: 14 October 2025

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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